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Joint Resolution in relation to certain communications received by the Governor, on the subject of Slavery. 1856 431 (1856.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0321 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OP MISSISSIPPI. the same are hereby declared as good and valid as if said sales had boon made in all respects conform- able to law. SEC. 2. Be it terther enacted, That all act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1856. CHAPTR 252. JOINT RESOLUTION In relation to certain comntunications received by the Governor, on the isubjiect of savery. WHEREAS , Co1flluun 6ctionS 011 the S1bject of Slavery and the polvers and policy of thc Fed- eral Government in relation thereto, are from time to time, addressed to the Executive of this State by the Legislature and Exceutive authori- ties of other States in which Slavery is 11t recog- IiZed by law, containi inl gS4di tious an1d treasOnablC seltiients, evincing a coi temill itious iisregard of the sacred guaran tees of the Constitution, and evidently dictated by a blind and reckless fanat- icisim ; and wvhercas the hilingotge inl which those comunnuications are usuali' cotuied is violent, denunciatory and insulting to the Slave-holding States, and inanifests a hostile temper altogether incollpatablle with the kind spirit orfiicndship and good neighborhood, which ought to charac- terize the intercourse between sovereign States allied by the bonds of political Union; and whereas we can recognize no right in the people of the non-slaveholding States to interfere in any manner with the Institution of Slavery where it exists, in the Union, either by armed force of ac- tive hostility or by Pharisaical lectures upon the abstract wisdom or morality of the estab- lished relations of Master and Servant: AND WiuusAS, While the State of Mississippi is desirous to maintain and cultivate the most inti- Imate and friendly relations with all her sister States, and to receive and consider with respect- ful attention all communications from them on subjects properly concerning the common weal, she is nevertheless unwilling to listen to the rav- ings of phrensical fanaticism or the ebulitions of malignant slander, and cannot permit the ordi- .431

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